Went to the Festival of Speed last Sunday and gave my new Nikon 70-300mm VR lens a workout!  It was also my first attempt at panning, which was an experience

I started of with the camera set to single shot and a fairly short focal length.  Found that  with my first few attempts I kept missing the target and either got the front or rear of the car/bike in the frame.  Then switched to coninuous shooting and my success rate improved!  I then wanted to try and got more of the target in the frame to 'fill it' so to speak.  This then reduced my margin for eror dramatically and I started to get the front or the rear of the object again!

Strangely, I found it that the motorbikes produced the better panning shots, not sure why

Anyway, it was a superb day out and I got some good shots, and for my first attempt at panning I was fairly pleased.  I'm not anywhere near getting this technique spot-on and still have a lot to work on, but it was good experience. 

Any feedback on the first 3 shots would be really appreciated as they shpw my panning efforst more than the other photos.

Cheers for looking

your should join the canon forum even if you have a nikon..your get tones more feed back than you will here.this forum isnt very busy which is a shame.talk about phototgrahpy is also a busy forum

lovely shots by the way.

Cheers guys

I like the last shot as well Briyeo...its a bit more 'arty' looking than the others

The Landrover shot was of the display they had in front of Goodwood House and this years 'theme' was based around 60 years of Landrover....it was a cracking piece of engineering to create a display like that.  I'll get another photo up later on so you can see what I'm talking about